Xres have a series of very large scale images, including several shots of El Capitan and Half Dome. The images are Gigabytes in size, and use the Google Maps interface to provide a browser that you can use to zoom and move the image. Incredible. (Via Information Aesthetics)

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Our explorer was beginning to suffer from submission-overload, so we have just updated it to include clustering. Climbs that are too close to be distinguished on the explorer will now be represented by a single marker.

Take a look at The Tank at Burbage South for example - lots of climbs in a relatively small area. The old explorer showed a marker for each climb, causing markers to be hidden. In our new explorer, these six climbs are displayed over four markers, reducing complexity while increasing speed.

Other interesting clusters:
* Burbage
* Stanage
* Hobson Moor

If you want to view the climbs in each cluster, then click on the marker and use the ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ links to move between them.